From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 25 08:07:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC48916A403 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:07:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 394A913C47E for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:07:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 38so724275huc for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:07:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=L//xJ4RrYmD1v1fm1hTVc3ER76zms8v+GEh6ENZ+xufpn59Ckm1wQQsLw+jyxA+KIGVAFYDgfZD/Kj5JsCW2a2YUX+F29nrLkS4kWJeP+t5S3V9TsKet2cEYNLafG1LCbaREgVeIHNUcHXE0No+2D+AwGluY0P75H5kOb9HVDTQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=jrX+DiF0Y+3DaSRf3igtWJzO/i/+MbXYuVQBR6sd7fJwctADQMAeMEUqh/ur5OsIvaIWpfR0C7/iP3NffVVFV13uK/kXHWi168nykH8rwu7DiQc0V8fvGKqYRWmMlqfEJATXYfZ5V//mkbTEIDACMa7YIjVLle9I8HkqAaYundg= Received: by 10.78.201.15 with SMTP id y15mr26728huf.1172390877674; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.17.18 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:07:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:07:57 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: "Andrew Lentvorski" In-Reply-To: <45E14270.7010105@allcaps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <45E0F697.2030005@allcaps.org> <002001c758a1$a3ed10f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <45E14270.7010105@allcaps.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: chris@hier7.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:07:59 -0000 It would be a facinating experiment if a laaaarge group of Fbsd users at 1000s of hosts were recruited as supporters to the Fbsd Organization..to host some subset of critical files. It would be super neato if you could configure what you wished to donate via a tool that would populate your box with specific data. On 2/25/07, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Chris Slothouber wrote: > > > But isn't the whole point of peer to peer file distribution to > > *distribute* the bandwidth requirements to the point that the costs > > involved for each of the individual peers is trivial but the client > > receiving the file still obtains full speed of a direct download? > > Yes, actually, it is. > > -a > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >